1. David Belyavskiy was part of the teams who won gold at the 2020 Olympic Games and 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2016 Olympic Games and 2018 World Championships.
42 Facts About David Belyavskiy
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Individually Belyavskiy won an Olympic bronze medal on parallel bars in 2016 and a World silver and bronze medal on pommel horse and parallel bars, respectively, in 2017.
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David Belyavskiy's parents died early in his life and he was raised by his grandparents, growing up in a boarding school.
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David Belyavskiy married his fiancee, Maria, on October 30,2016, in Santorini, Greece.
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David Belyavskiy competed in his first world championships in 2010, and finished 6th in all-around at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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In 2012 David Belyavskiy became the national champion on parallel bars.
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David Belyavskiy was part of the Russian team that competed at the 2012 Europeans where they won the silver medal behind Great Britain.
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David Belyavskiy then competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing 5th in the all-around finals and 7th in the pommel horse final.
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David Belyavskiy won bronze in the all-around at the 2012 Stuttgart World Cup.
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David Belyavskiy began his 2013 season by winning the Russian National all-around title and defending his parallel bars title.
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David Belyavskiy won bronze in the parallel bars final with a score of 15.533 and placed 5th on floor with a score of 14.4.
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David Belyavskiy won the all-around bronze medal.
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Roughly a week before the 2013 World Championships David Belyavskiy sustained an ankle injury.
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David Belyavskiy went on to compete at the World Championships however only qualified to the all around final in 14th place, coming 12th in the final with a score of 86.274.
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In 2014 David Belyavskiy won his 2nd consecutive national all around title and his 3rd consecutive national parallel bars title.
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David Belyavskiy placed 8th in the floor final with a score of 14.866.
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David Belyavskiy competed on floor, pommel horse, vault, parallel bars and high bar to help the Russian team of David Belyavskiy, Denis Ablyazin, Nikita Ignatyev, Nikolai Kuksenkov, Daniil Kazachkov and Ivan Stretovich to a 5th-place finish in the team final.
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David Belyavskiy placed 5th in the all around final, scoring 89.765, and 5th in the high bar final, scoring 14.733.
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In 2015, David Belyavskiy won his third consecutive national all-around title and his fourth consecutive national parallel bars title.
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At the 2015 European Championships in Montpellier, France, David Belyavskiy had a rough time in the qualifications round, qualifying sixth to the all around final and third to the floor final, but did not make any other finals.
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David Belyavskiy won silver in the floor final behind Briton Kristian Thomas with a score of 15.066.
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In June, David Belyavskiy competed in the 2015 European Games, winning gold in the team competition.
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David Belyavskiy won the bronze in the floor final with a score of 15.000, placed fourth in the pommel horse final with a score of 13.900, and won the silver in the parallel bars final with a score of 15.700, only 0.033 points behind winner Oleg Stepko.
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At the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, David Belyavskiy competed on all events in the team final to help team Russia finish in fourth place.
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At the 2016 Russian National Championships David Belyavskiy won a gold medal with his team.
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David Belyavskiy defended his national title on the parallel bars, winning for the 5th consecutive year.
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David Belyavskiy won bronze on high bar, silver on pommel horse and placed 4th on floor, making him the most decorated gymnast at the European Championships.
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David Belyavskiy was not initially planning to compete in the 2017 Russian National Championships due to kidney stone problems, however he decided to compete anyway.
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David Belyavskiy did not compete in the all around competition, showing routines on every event except rings in the qualification round.
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David Belyavskiy placed 5th in the floor final with a score of 13.5.
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David Belyavskiy was then named to the team for the 2017 European Championships.
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David Belyavskiy competed in the 2018 Russian National Championships, winning individual gold on pommel horse, silver on the all-around, still rings and high bar, and bronze on the team event.
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David Belyavskiy placed fourth on the individual floor exercise event.
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David Belyavskiy competed at the 2018 European Championships, securing the team bronze medal as part of the Russian squad while capturing individual the silver medal on parallel bars and placing fourth on pommel horse.
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Lastly, at the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, David Belyavskiy took the team silver medal as part of the Russian squad, and finished in seventh place on the individual pommel horse event.
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David Belyavskiy placed first all-around, eighth on floor exercise, fifth on high bar, fourth on parallel bars, first on pommel horse, and eighth on rings.
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In October, David Belyavskiy was part of the Russian gold-medal-winning squad who won the all-around team event gold medal at the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
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David Belyavskiy placed eighth in the individual pommel horse event final.
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David Belyavskiy competed at the Russian Championships where he finished third in the all-around behind Aleksandr Kartsev and Artur Dalaloyan.
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David Belyavskiy was selected to compete at the upcoming European Championships.
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David Belyavskiy next competed at the Russian Cup where he won gold on pommel horse and parallel bars.
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At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo David Belyavskiy helped the team qualify to the team final in third place and individually qualified to the pommel horse and parallel bars event finals; he finished tenth in the all-around qualification but did not advance to the final due to Nagornyy and Dalaloyan placing higher.